Michael Wayne Johnson, 28, was found dead down an embankment off Agnes Road in the Bearden area of West Knoxville on August 29, 2017, the victim of multiple gunshot wounds. Investigators traced the killing to a house on the same road where Johnson had been confronted over an alleged stolen car and was restrained in the basement with duct tape before being taken to the driveway and shot 13 times with a .40 caliber handgun.

Police say the shooter was 24-year-old Jaleen Genard Allen, also known as Jay Skoop, a man from Detroit who was in Knoxville attempting to sell heroin. Allen fled after the murder but was located weeks later in Detroit by U.S. Marshals; officers found a handgun on him and ballistics matched shell casings from the scene to that firearm. Prosecutors also put forward Facebook posts showing Allen with the weapon prior to the killing.

In August 2018 a jury convicted Allen of First Degree Murder, Especially Aggravated Kidnapping, and Employing a Firearm During the Commission of a Dangerous Felony; a judge later added 31 years to his automatic life sentence. Did anyone in the Bearden neighborhood notice unusual visitors or activity on Agnes Road around late August 2017?